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ACTION DUPLICATION EXPANDS DVD AND CD ON-DISC PRINT CAPABILITIES

Only DVD And CD Replicator With Three Printing Options

West Conshohocken, PA (March 13, 2007) – Action Duplication, the region’s premier replicator of DVDs and CDs, today announced the purchase of a new Lamin 6-Color Offset Press for printing directly on DVD and CD discs. The new equipment prints 4-color process images on optical discs with the same high resolution quality expected on offset printed paper.

The offset printer can print 85,000 discs per day. The resolution is 175 lines per inch. The press prints in CMYK plus 2 additional colors for adding a Pantone color and the white flood.

Action Duplication is now the only DVD and CD replicator capable of decorating optical discs with offset, silk screen, or on-disc digital printing. Each process has its advantages. Offset is best for extremely high quality 4-color process printing which closely matches printed packaging. Silk screen is best for printing with Pantone inks in up to 5 colors. On-disc digital printing offers high quality and is economical for 4-color process runs of less than 2,000 discs, and with runs using its variable print capability.

“The print quality of the new press sets the standard for optical disc decoration,” said Joel Levitt, president of Action Duplication. “Offset is now the preferred process for printing on new theatrical DVD releases. Because this state of the art press is quick to set up and uses economical consumables, we can pass the cost savings on to our clients.”

About Action Duplication

Action Duplication is the only manufacturer of DVDs and CDs in the Philadelphia region to offer one-stop shopping for video, audio and disc manufacturing, packaging, printing, fulfillment, DVD authoring, broadcast duplication, and international standards conversions. Action Duplication works with a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, printers, video production facilities, independent producers, advertising agencies, trade associations, universities, and government agencies. Manufacturing is completed on site in Action Duplication’s state-of-the-art production facility, assuring the highest quality standards.

With headquarters and a manufacturing plant in West Conshohocken, PA, Action Duplication has offices in Harrisburg, PA and Ijamsville, MD, serving the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area. For more information on Action Duplication, please visit www.actionduplication.com or call 610-828-7580.

ACTION DUPLICATION ADDS EXPERIENCED SALES EXECUTIVE TO GROW REVENUE

Brad Cooper Brings Senior Level Sales Skills to Team

West Conshohocken, PA (February 7, 2007) – Action Duplication, Inc., the largest manufacturer of DVDs and CDs for business in the region, is pleased to announce that Brad Cooper has joined the company as a regional sales manager. Mr. Cooper most recently worked on the corporate sales team at Staples, Inc.

In his role at Staples, Mr. Cooper was part of a four-person sales team that launched a new program offering for printing services to corporate clients. The new program has been such a success that it is now a primary focus in the company’s growth plan and is being offered in five additional markets. Mr. Cooper has extensive sales experience in the printing industry and also worked for Atlas Printing and Communications of Worcester, MA.

“We are very pleased Brad has joined our team,” said President Joel Levitt. “He has a strong background in sales and a lot of experience working with printers, who are a large part of our client base. Through Brad’s efforts, we expect to increase our market share among all the industries we serve.”

At Atlas Mr. Cooper spearheaded the effort to create a product showroom to improve the ASI division (promotional products), oversaw the development of an e-commerce site and implemented a marketing campaign to increase sales with existing customers. Mr. Cooper, originally from Worcester, MA, is a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Management where he received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises.

About Action Duplication

Action Duplication is the Philadelphia region’s premier manufacturer of DVDs and CDs for business offering one-stop shopping for video, audio and disc manufacturing, packaging, printing, fulfillment, DVD authoring, broadcast duplication, and international standard conversions. Action Duplication works with a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, printers, video production facilities, independent producers, advertising agencies, trade associations, universities, and government agencies. Manufacturing is completed on site in Action Duplication’s state-of-the-art production facility, assuring the highest quality standards.

Action Duplication President Joel Levitt Interviewed on Executive Leaders Radio

Joel Levitt speaks with Executive Leaders host Rebecca Blacksmith about Action Duplication and its history.

Aired: December 8, 2006 on WWDB.

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Heather Maressa
Square 2 Marketing
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Action Duplication Manufactures Its 50 Millionth Disc


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West Conshohocken, PA (June 12, 2006) - Action Duplication, Inc., the largest manufacturer of DVD’s, CD’s and video cassettes in the region, announced that their production facility in West Conshohocken has produced its 50 millionth disc. A project for Brown+Partners marked this manufacturing achievement.

“We have been manufacturing packaged media for more than 15 years,” commented Joel Levitt, president of Action Duplication. “We have the ability to produce as many as 80,000 discs each day. When my plant manager informed me that we reached this milestone, I was thrilled.”

“When Joel Levitt from Action Duplication told me that my project was part of this achievement, I was very pleased,” said Michael Brown, president of Brown+Partners. “We have been a long-time customer of Action Duplication, but I never gave thought to how many discs they actually produce.”

About Action Duplication

Action Duplication is the only manufacturer of DVD’s and CD’s in the Philadelphia region to offer one-stop shopping for video, audio and disc manufacturing, packaging, printing, fulfillment, DVD authoring, broadcast duplication, and international standards conversions. Action Duplication works with a wide variety industries including pharmaceuticals, printers, video production facilities, independent producers, advertising agencies, trade associations, universities, and government agencies. Manufacturing is completed on site in Action Duplication’s state-of-the-art production facility, assuring the highest quality standards.

With headquarters and a manufacturing plant in West Conshohocken, PA, Action Duplication has offices in Harrisburg, PA and Ijamsville, MD, which serves the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area. For more information on Action Duplication, please visit www.actionduplication.com or call 610-828-7580.

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Contacts:
Mike Lieberman
Square 2 Marketing
215-880-6290

Action Duplication Raises Money For Project H.O.M.E.

Conshohocken, July 25, 2005-Action Duplication, Inc., the region's premier manufacturer of DVDs, CDs and VHS cassettes, took some personal time on Saturday July 23, 2005 and raised $536 for Project H.O.M.E., an outstanding charitable organization helping the people living on the streets of Philadelphia.

Joel Levitt and his Action Duplication team cycled 65 miles in the Tour de Shore from The Irish Pub in Philadelphia to the Irish Pub in Atlantic City. All of the team members finished the route in less than 4 1/2 hours, despite having to stop for one flat tire along the way. Action Duplication is an active participant in community events that benefit local charities across the region.

Action Duplication's president, Joel Levitt commented after the race, "This is such a great event and the people who organize, sponsor, participate, and support the ride made this a special day for our team, we are glad to participate and glad to help such a great organization."

Pictured are Joel Levitt, President of Action Duplication (in the helmet), his son Chad Levitt (seated below him), Michael Vogel (standing) and Mitchell Weiss (seated).

About Action Duplication

Action Duplication manufactures DVDs, CDs, and VHS cassettes for a wide variety of businesses, including large pharmaceutical companies, commercial printers, video production facilities, independent producers, advertising agencies, trade associations, universities, and government agencies. Action Duplication's headquarters and main manufacturing plant is in Conshohocken PA, outside of Philadelphia. They also have a satellite facility in Maryland serving the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area and a sales office in Harrisburg, PA. For more information on Action Duplication, please visit www.actionduplication.com or feel free to contact them at 610-828-7580.

About Project H.O.M.E.

The mission of the Project H.O.M.E. community is to empower persons to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to address structural causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential as individuals and as members of the broader society. Project H.O.M.E. strives to create a stable and secure environment where we support each other in our struggles for self-esteem, recovery and the confidence to move toward self-actualization. The work of Project H.O.M.E. is rooted in our strong spiritual conviction of the dignity of each person. For more information on Project H.O.M.E. please visit our website at www.projecthome.org. or call us at 215-232-7272.

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Action Duplication Triples Capacity for DVD Manufacturing

Addition of new molding line provides new standards for turnaround time and customer service

Conshohocken, June 9, 2005—Action Duplication, Inc., the region’s largest replicator and manufacturer of DVD, CD and VHS cassettes today announced the addition of new high speed M2 DVD molding line to increase the facility’s output to 36,000 DVD-5 or DVD-9 discs per day. The equipment and plant upgrade cost $1.5 million.

Joel Levitt, president of Action Duplication stated, “The company has expanded its capacity to meet the requirements of our clients.” Levitt went on to comment, “Action Duplication provides a very high level of service and we specialize in tight turnarounds, so the new line makes us competitively superior.”

The added capacity came in handy when the U.S. Department of Labor needed to replicate Up From Zero, a commemorative DVD honoring the rescue workers who excavated and rebuilt Ground Zero after the 9/11 disaster. “The Department of Labor project was planned a year out - and there was a huge demand that far surpassed what they’d thought they’d be needing,” says Rona Fitzgerald, who heads up the Action Duplication facility in Maryland.

Up From Zero was distributed via the Department of Labor Website—and as word about the availability of the free title spread over the Internet, orders for the DVD far exceeded initial expectations. More than 200,000 copies of the title were replicated in a series of orders and re-orders before the program was ended.

“What our customers are most impressed with is that fact that we’re extremely sensitive to their needs, whether they’re doing 10 copies or 10,000 copies,” says Fitzgerald. “It’s not unusual for us to get things at the last minute, or deal with last-minute changes.”

“Most of our referrals come from customers who find themselves in a predicament because they couldn’t get the turnaround time needed for their orders — until they came to Action Duplication. We specialize in those types of orders.” she says.

About Action Duplication

Action Duplication manufactures DVDs, CDs, and VHS cassettes for a wide variety of businesses. Action Duplication has developed a specialty niche serving many of the large pharmaceutical companies in the area. Action Duplication also provides services to printers, video production facilities, independent producers, advertising agencies, trade associations, universities, and government agencies. Action Duplication has a facility in Ijamsville, MD which serves the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area. Their primary manufacturing plant is in Conshohocken PA, just outside of Philadelphia. For more information on Action Duplication, please visit www.actionduplication.com or feel free to contact them at 610-828-7580.

For Release: February 1, 2004

ACTION DUPLICATION OFFERS BREAKTHROUGH ON-DISC DIGITAL PRINTING

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA – Citing the ability to enhance quality and meet customers’ creative needs, Action Duplication announced today an expansion of services to include On-Disc Digital Printing. This new technology, developed by Auto-Tec AG, Switzerland, allows photo-quality images to be printed on CD’s and DVD’s. The quality of the image is far better than the industry standard silk-screen printing process. Additionally, the Digital Print Transfer process uniquely allows for the individual customization of each disc with variable data such as names, addresses, and serial numbers.

“Our On-Disc Digital Printing adds a new dimension to our existing capabilities and revolutionizes the decoration of optical discs”, said Joel Levitt, President of Action Duplication. “The exceedingly high quality of the printing and the ability to offer variable data will make this process the de facto standard in the near future.”

The ability to personalize optical discs creates many new uses for the medium. Examples are personalized Direct Mail CD’s, Business Card CD’s, CD Concert Tickets, the serialization of secure content, and Limited Edition Collectible DVD’s. The equipment can print 50,000 discs a day.

“The personalization feature of this service has far reaching implications and will take direct marketing with discs to a new level.” said Levitt. “Plus, the high quality disc label can now match the 4-color process packaging materials.”

The addition of Action Duplication’s On-Disc Digital Transfer service, along with the recently installed DVD molding capabilities, demonstrates the company’s continuing investment in the latest technology to serve the needs of its growing customer base.

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Action Duplication, Inc., West Conshohocken, PA, is the leading full service media manufacturer in the Mid-Atlantic region offering complete duplication and replication solutions. The company’s services include DVD and CD manufacturing, VHS and audio cassette duplication, custom labeling, package design and fulfillment. Founded in 1990, the company also has offices in Harrisburg, PA and a manufacturing facility near Baltimore, MD. Action Duplication’s clients include pharmaceutical companies, software and technology developers, CD and DVD brokers, advertising agencies, government agencies, and many Fortune 500 companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

For more information:
Contact: Joel Levitt
(610) 828-7580
www.actionduplication.com

ACTION DUPLICATION BRINGS DVD MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES TO THE REGION

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA –Action Duplication, Inc., a leading media manufacturing company in the Mid-Atlantic region, has expanded its services to include in-house DVD molding. Action Duplication is now the only independent media replicator in Pennsylvania with on-site DVD manufacturing capabilities.

The DVD format has achieved worldwide acceptance faster than any consumer media product ever launched. Action Duplication can now manufacture, package, and distribute millions of DVD discs per year. In additional to feature films, DVD’s are widely used for corporate videos and promotional applications.

"Manufacturing the DVDs in our own facility allows us to meet our customers’ pressing need for fast turnaround times, high quality, and a competitive price," said Joel Levitt, President and Founder of Action Duplication. "There is a vibrant video production industry in the Philadelphia-Washington corridor. As we are a customer-driven business, we recognized that manufacturing DVDs in the Philadelphia area would allow us to fill a huge void in regional service”.

This new capability enhances the company’s already broad offerings including CD, VHS, and Audio Cassette duplication, as well as video encoding, DVD authoring, International Standard Conversions, custom packaging, design and fulfillment. Action Duplication’s clients include pharmaceutical companies, software and technology developers, CD and DVD brokers, advertising agencies, government agencies, and many Fortune 500 companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The company invested over a million dollars in an M2 DVD molding line which produces DVDs from raw materials, stamping the program directly onto the disc. Automated equipment lines are then used to silk screen print and package the discs.

"The need for optical disc replication on a mass scale is growing enormously and we made an investment to meet that demand," said Levitt. "VHS production is starting to decline, but CD-ROM and DVD usage continues to increase."

Action Duplication, Inc., West Conshohocken, PA, is a full service media manufacturer that offers complete duplication and replication solutions. The company’s services include DVD and CD manufacturing and, VHS and audio cassette duplication, custom labeling, package design and fulfillment. Optical disc operations are housed in a new facility located adjacent to corporate headquarters. Founded in 1990, the company also has offices in Harrisburg, PA and a manufacturing facility near Baltimore, MD.

For more information:
Contact: Joel Levitt
(610) 828-7580
www.actionduplication.com

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ACTION DUPLICATION PURCHASES VDO VIDEO IN IJAMSVILLE, MD.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (April 4, 2002)—Joel Levitt, president of Action Duplication, Inc., has announced the purchase of VDO Video in Ijamsville, Md. Rona Fitzgerald, President of VDO Video, will stay on with the combined company as Regional Manager, Sales & Marketing for Baltimore & Washington. The company will continue to operate as VDO Video, a division of Action Duplication, Inc.

Action Duplication, established in 1990, is the largest video duplicator in Pennsylvania and the only facility offering both high-speed video duplication and in-house compact disc molding. VDO Video, a 4-year-old company, specializes in large volume VHS and Beta SP duplication. Combined company sales will exceed $12 million per year.

“The purchase of VDO Video gives us a much stronger presence in the Baltimore and Washington markets,” says Joel Levitt. Rona Fitzgerald is well known in that area and her company has an excellent reputation. This will be a great fit and nicely complement our sales offices in Harrisburg, and Wilmington. Our manufacturing plant in West Conshohocken will continue to serve Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey as well as handle the larger projects for the satellite offices.”

Ms. Fitzgerald added, “Merging with Action Duplication will assure the continued success of VDO Video. Now we can handle in-house, very large video duplication and CD replication projects while still continuing to provide the quick delivery and customer service our clients expect. Also, we can now offer our clients a full range of services including DVD authoring, large volume CD and DVD replication, video encoding, and broadcast-quality standard conversions.”

For more information about Action Duplication, contact Joel Levitt at 610-828-7580 or Email.

For more information about VDO Video contact Rona Fitzgerald at 301-607-4590 or Email.